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Перевод: quagmire
[существительное] болото; трясина ; затруднительное положение
Тезаурус:
- "Quagmire," said Zach, and he gave a sigh and threw his hands up in the air.
- This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire.
- British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire.
- Like Mr Segni, Mr Orlando says electoral reform is essential if Italy is to escape from its "political quagmire".
- a quagmire, oozing, cold, grey-green
- She moved on, and into a quagmire of silt which she had to wade through, making obscene sucking noises every time she took a step.
- In the wet months it could turn into a quagmire.
- And upon the way they round a leper, struggling in a quagmire, who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God; and when Rodrigo heard this, he alighted from his beast and helped him, and placed him upon the beast before him, and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night.
- To listen to the sanctimonious critics in the "serious" papers, on TV and, particularly, in Parliament, you would think that the Press is nothing but a quagmire of evil.
- "It took a flying leap into the quagmire during my last screw with Gabriel."
- My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps, where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen, leaving him miles to walk back to any road.
- Election Focus:A Hung Parliament: In a quagmire of coalition Robin Lodge, Diplomatic Correspondent, looks abroad to see how other countries cope with pacts, backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning
- Back in 1646, one of the few articulate defenders of such deluded people maintained that those who would undertake drainage "have always vilified the Fens, and have misinformed many Parliament men, that all the Fens is a mere quagmire of little or no value: but those which live in the Fens, and are neighbours to it, know the contrary."
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